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Quotations Of Liberty And Freedom

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.Colton

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties.Milton

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.J. G. Holland

The word independence is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue; the word dependence is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.J. Bentham

He that marries for money sells his liberty.Proverb

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.Klopstock

A right independence of mind will enable us to stand alone amid the beating and breaking of storms that will bear against it - a mind that will think its own thoughts, and stand upon its own principles; leaning entirely upon others, and bowing continually, is no property of an independent mind.J. W. Barker

There are two freedoms, - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.Charles Kingsley

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.John Winthrop

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.Woodrow Wilson

That nation is in the enjoyment of liberty which stands by its own strength, and does not depend on the will of another.Livy

We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.W. E. Channing

Liberty is the richest inheritance which man has received from the skies! When shall its sacred fire burn in every bosom, and kindling with the thrilling force of inspiration, spread from heart to heart and from mind to mind, and be the common privilege and birthright of every human being?Acton

Quotations Of Libraries and Books

He has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world, and the glories of a modern one.Longfellow

Those faithful mirrors, which reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.Gibbon

Some books are drenched sands, on which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, like a wrecked argosy.Adam Smith

Some books we should keep in our hands, and on our hearts; the best way we could dispose of others would be, to throw them in the fire.Acton

Books give the same turn to our thoughts that company does to our conversation, without loading our memories, or making us even sensible of the change.Swift

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not feel more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.Lavater

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.Wendell Phillips

A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows.H. W. Beecher

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.G. Bancroft

A library is a precious catacomb, wherein are embalmed and preserved imperishably the great minds of the dead who will never die.Chatfield

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.William Shakespeare

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.Emerson

When the eye sees what it never saw, the heart will think what it never thought.Proverb

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been, - it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.Carlyle

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.Carlyle

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.Emerson

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.Benjamin Franklin

The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.Henry Giles

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.Lowell

Trust in thine own untried capacityAs thou wouldst trust in God Himself. Thy soulIs but an emanation from the whole.Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee,Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.Thy silent mind o'er diamond caves may roll,Go seek them - but let guiding will controlThose passions which thy favouring winds can be.

Avenging and bright fell the swift sword of Erin,On him who the sons of Usna betray'd;For ev'ry fond eye he hath waken'd a tear in,A drop from his heart-wounds shall weep o'er her blade.By the red cloud that hung over Conor's dark dwelling,When Ulad's three champions lay sleeping in gore;By the pillows of war which, so often, high swelling,Have wafted these heroes to victory's shore! --

Strikes it coldly on the heart --Endure, endure, be what thou art?Never bend beneath the load,Never falter on the road,Onward, proudly, through the strife,'Tis the corner-stone of life;Make your happiness secure,Endure, endure, endure, endure!

Look how the lark soars upward and is gone,Turning a spirit as he nears the sky!His voice is heard, but body there is noneTo fix the vague excursions of the eye.So, poets' songs are with us, though they dieObscured and hid by Death's oblivious shroud,And earth inherits the rich melody,Like raining music from the morning cloud.

Oh, of course, it's bliss -- but how hot it is
And the rock I'm sitting on grows harder every minute;
Still the fisher waits, trying various baits,
But the baskets at his side, I see, have nothing in them.

Could I but measure my strength, by my love,Were I as strong, as my heart's love is true,I would pull down the stars, from the heavens above,And weave them all into a garland for you.And brighter, and better, your jewels should beThan any proud queen's, that e'r dwelt o'er the sea.Ay! richer and rarer, your gems, love, should beThan any rare jewels that come from the sea.

It seemed that out of the battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Through granites which Titanic wars had groined.
Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,
Lifting distressful hands as if to bless.

Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear,Your head like the golden-rod,And we will go sailing away from hereTo the beautiful Land of Nod.Away from life's hurry, and flurry, and worry,Away from earth's shadows and gloom,To a world of fair weather we'll float off together,Where roses are always in bloom.

Hear the sledges with the bells,Silver bells!What a world of merriment their melody foretells!How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,In the icy air of night!While the stars, that oversprinkleAll the heavens, seem to twinkleWith a crystalline delight;Keeping time, time, time,In a sort of Runic rhyme,To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells --From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

O the warm, sweet, mellow summer noon,The golden calm and the perfumed air,The chirp of birds and the locust's croon,The rich flowers blossoming still and fair.The old house lies 'mid the swarming leavesSteeped in sunshine from porch to eaves,With doors and windows thrown open wideTo welcome the beauty and bloom outside.

I would build a cloudy HouseFor my thoughts to live in:When for earth too fancy-loose,And too low for Heaven!Hush! I talk my dream aloud --I build it bright to see, --I build it on the moonlit cloudTo which I looked with thee.

Dearest though I have sung a many songs,
Yet have I never sung one from my heart,
Save to thee only -- and such private songs
Are as the silent, secret kiss of Love!
My heart, I say, so sacred was, and is,
I kept, I keep it, from all eyes but thine,
Because it is no longer mine, but thine,
Given thee forever, when I gave myself
That winter morning -- was it years ago?

Yes, she is beautiful indeed!The soft blue eyes, the golden hair,The brow where pleasant thoughts we read,The radiant smile, the winning air,The cherub form of perfect grace,Whose fairy steps in music glide --And oh! that sweet, that heavenly face!Well may she be her mother's pride!

Somewhat back from the village streetStands the old-fashioned country-seat;Across its antique porticoTall poplar trees their shadows throw,And from its station in the hallAn ancient timepiece says to all,For ever -- never!Never -- for ever!

Halfway up the stairs it stands,And points and beckons with its handsFrom its case of massive oak,Like a monk, who, under his cloak,Crosses himself, and sighs, alas!With sorrowful voice to all who pass, --For ever -- never!Never -- for ever!

The Rock-a-By Lady from Hushaby streetComes stealing; comes creeping;The poppies they hang from her head to her feet,And each hath a dream that is tiny and fleet --She bringeth her poppies to you, my sweet,When she findeth you sleeping!

It tossed its head at the wooing breeze;And the sun, like a bashful swain,Beamed on it through the waving treesWith a passion all in vain, --For my rose laughed in a crimson glee,And hid in the leaves in wait for me.

The honey-bee came there to singHis love through the languid hours,And vaunt of his hives, as a proud old kingMight boast of his palace-towers:But my rose bowed in a mockery,And hid in the leaves in wait for me.

Across the narrow beach we flit,One little sandpiper and I;And fast I gather, bit by bit,The scattered driftwood bleached and dry.The wild waves reach their hands for it,The wild wind raves, the tide runs high,As up and down the beach we flit, --One little sandpiper and I.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound,I strive and struggle to deliver rightThat music of my nature, day and night,With dream and thought and feeling, interwound,And inly answering all the senses roundWith octaves of a mystic depth and height,Which step out grandly to the infiniteFrom the dark edges of the sensual ground!

Husband, to-day could you and I behold
The sun that brought us to our bridal morn
Rising so splendid in the winter sky
(We thought fair spring returned), when we were wed;
Could the shades vanish from these fifteen years,
Which stand like columns guarding the approach
To that great temple of the double soul
That is as one -- would you turn back, my dear,
And, for the sake of Love's mysterious dream,
As old as Adam and as sweet as Eve,
Take me, as I took you, and once more go
Towards that goal which none of us have reached?

Thou art, O God, the life and lightOf all this wond'rous world we see;Its glow by day, its smile by night,Are but reflections caught from Thee.Where'er we turn Thy glories shine,And all things fair and bright are Thine!

Oh! 'tis sweet to think, that, where'er we rove,We are sure to find something blissful and dear,And that, when we're far from the lips we love,We have but to make love to the lips we are near!The heart, like a tendril, accustom'd to cling,Let it grow where it will, cannot flourish alone,But will lean to the nearest and loveliest thingIt can twine with itself, and make closely its own.Then oh! what pleasure, where'er we rove,To be sure to find something still that is dear,And to know, when far from the lips we love,We have but to make love to the lips we are near.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

I every day a tender layShall waken to her name,And every night to throne of mightShall kneel to bless the same;For years and years, through smiles and tears,I'll prize her all above;And well shall this insure the blissThat hails our wedded love.

But we want women, strong of soul, yet lowly,With that rare meekness, born of gentleness,Women whose lives are pure and clean and holy,The women whom all little children bless.Brave, earnest women, helpful to each other,With finest scorn for all things low and mean;Women who hold the names of wife and motherFar nobler than the title of a Queen.

Oh, these are they who mould the men of story,These mothers, ofttimes shorn of grace and youth,Who, worn and weary, ask no greater gloryThan making some young soul the home of truth;Who sow in hearts all fallow for the sowingThe seeds of virtue and of scorn for sin,And, patient, watch the beauteous harvest growingAnd weed out tares which crafty hands cast in.

Give us that grand word woman once again,And let's have done with lady: one's a termFull of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm,Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen;And one's a word for lackeys. One suggestsThe Mother, Wife, and Sister! One the dameWhose costly robe, mayhap, gives her the name.

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